The romance of Guy of Warwick. The second or 15th-century version. Edited from the paper ms. Ff. 2. 38. in the University Library, Cambridge, by Dr. Julius Zupitza ...

                                
                                  ¶ Tho Harrowde seyde: 'syr knyght,
                                
                                  Abyde now a lytull wyght
                                
                                  And stynte in pees a lytull þrowe,
                                
                                  Yf y þe myght bettur knowe.
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                                  For soþe y telle þe now ryght,
                                
                                  That y haue be in mony a fyght
                                
                                  And mony an harde stowre ouercomen
                                
                                  And many a knyȝt in batell nomen.
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                                  Yf þou were of me ware,
                                
                                  How y am preysed wyde whare,
                                
                                  Thou woldyst noþyng schame þe
                                
                                  Thy name for to telle me.
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                                  I beseke the, syr knyght,
                                
                                  For hys loue, þat þys worlde haþ dyȝt,
                                
                                  That þou thy name telle me,
                                
                                  Where þou were borne and in what cuntre,
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                                  And here y my trowthe plyght,
                                
                                  Y schall the telle anon ryght,
                                
                                  Of whens y am and what men clepe me
                                
                                  And where y was borne and in what cuntre.'
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                                  ¶ Wyth that he wythdrewe hym there [folio 234a:1] 
                                
                                  Wyth sterne semblant and harde chere:
                                
                                  'Knyght,' he seyde, 'þou art well wyse,
                                
                                  Wyght, hardy and of mekyll pryce.
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                                  Thorow strenkyth y wolde not þe telle:
                                
                                  Arste y wolde myselfe let qwelle;
                                
                                  But, for þou in loue besechyst me
                                
                                  Thyn askynge y schall telle the.
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                                  I was borne yn Ynglonde
                                
                                  Yn Warwyk, as y vndurstonde.
                                
                                  Syr Gye my fadur was:
                                
                                  A bettur knyght neuyr nas.
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                                  When he owte of þat londe wente,
                                
                                  A knyght he louyd veramente:
                                
                                  Hys name was Harrowde of Arderne.
                                
                                  Wyth hym y was þe werre to lerne:

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Title: The romance of Guy of Warwick. The second or 15th-century version. Edited from the paper ms. Ff. 2. 38. in the University Library, Cambridge, by Dr. Julius Zupitza ...
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Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co.,; 1875-6.

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